The attack on the American welfare state (Week 8)

Session 6 The attack on the American welfare state (Week 8)

*Nelson Lichtenstein, State of the Union: A Century of American Labor, ch.3-6*Gerald Friedman, Reigniting the Labor Movement: Restoring Means to Ends in a Democratic Labor Movement (Routledge, 2007), chs. 5-6, PDF

Steven Greenhouse, The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Workers (Anchor, 2009), chs. 5-6, PDF

David Brody, "The Rise and Decline of Welfare Capitalism" in Brody, Workers in Industrial America: Essays on the Twentieth Century Struggle (New York, 1985), pp.48-81, PDF